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Health Secret! Spring Cleaning In Your Colon

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carrot daikon

Over the long winter, some of us ate more and exercised less. If that also included cheese, meat and chemicals, you might be looking forward to losing a few pounds.

Eating less, enjoying fresh vegetarian fare, and of course getting more exercise will help, but here is a recipe you will also enjoy…

Carrot-Daikon Drink

  • 1 medium carrot
  • same amount of daikon (thin variety preferred)
  • 1 scallion
  • 1 tablespoon shoyu or tamari
  • 1/2 cup water

Grate the carrot and daikon (works best on a ginger grater), and rinse the grater with a small amount of water to get all of it.… Read the rest

Macrobiotic Remedies For What Ails You

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In the past two days, I’ve eaten things I regularly don’t. Stress, holidays, weakness, whatever.

Many people have no symptoms when they eat this way, because they have strong constitution, or because they’ve always eaten this way, but I am sensitive, so I feel:

  • Listless
  • Irritable
  • Constipated
  • Not hungry

To get this stuff (mostly cheese, some sugar) out, I’m using something called Ume-Sho-Kuzu, with a pickled umeboshi plum, shoyu (high quality soy sauce) and kuzu (aka kudzu, a white rock that comes mainly from Louisiana these days).… Read the rest

Breakfast of Champions (of Health, Peace and Longevity)

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Like you, I enjoyed some fun foods over the weekend, including chocolate, fruit, and bread. But Monday morning, and the start of a new month, helps motivate me to do better for my body.

Today’s breakfast was hot cereal with oat groats, carrots and onion, cooked with sea salt, and sautéed kale stems and leaves, radish and scallions, with sesame oil and shoyu.… Read the rest